Evaluating technologies for tactical information management in net-centric systems

Ming Xiong, Jeff Parsons, James Edmondson, Hieu Nguyen, Douglas Schmidt, Raja Suresh
2007 Defense Transformation and Net-Centric Systems 2007  
† Recent trends in distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems motivate the development of tactical information management capabilities that ensure the right information is delivered to the right place at the right time to satisfy quality of service (QoS) requirements in heterogeneous environments. A promising approach to building and evolving largescale and long-lived tactical information management systems are standards-based QoS-enabled publish/subscribe (pub/sub) platforms that enable
more » ... pplications to communicate by publishing information they have and subscribing to information they need in a timely manner. Since there is little existing evaluation of how well these platforms meet the performance needs of tactical information management, this paper provides two contributions: (1) it describes three common architectures for the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS), which is a QoS-enabled pub/sub platform standard, and (2) it evaluates three implementations of these architectures to investigate their design tradeoffs and to compare their performance. Our results show that DDS implementations perform well in general and are well-suited for certain classes of data-critical tactical information management systems.
doi:10.1117/12.719679 fatcat:xweyxvr3ancaxnyt67is62f4va